Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang made his position on the dangers AI poses very clear while speaking at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference on Tuesday. To him, AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” as at least one OpenAI safety researcher has described it. It’s just hardware and software, he says, built by humans. That means, in his view, it can be controlled by humans and existing laws.
“Safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one,” he said. “We’re developing software after all. We’re developing computing systems after all. It’s a complicated computing system, but it’s ultimately a computing system.”
Therefore, there’s no need for new laws or regulations to govern it, he argues. In fact, Huang sees little need for new laws at all. The free market, he argues, will be enough to pressure companies not to release unsafe products.
“If we’re not confident about the safety of the products, like all companies, like you and I, all the companies here, if you build a product or a service, and you’re not confident in its functionality, capability, or safety, then don’t release it. And so that’s a very obvious thing to do,” he said.
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This further confirms to me that the motivation is all economic.
The AI developers are afraid of getting into an arms race over AI development where no one wins, because they keep doing massive spend to try and beat each other in model capabilities. If everyone was forced to slow down, they can avoid this outcome.
NVidia on the other hand, is the beneficiary of the arms race, being the arms dealer, so to speak. So they don't want the race to slow donw.
This topic of AI is quite controversial, and it's fashionable for all the big tech monopolies to use it to generate a quality service and attract more customers, so this statement by the Nvidia CEO makes me doubt it, since they also use it.
Same old story, just a different industry...
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Clements developed the successful strategy that the tobacco interests pursued to limit the damage to their business. Realizing that a warning label was unavoidable, Clements urged the corporate leaders of the six major cigarette manufacturers to ask Congress for legislation requiring labels, rather than allow the FTC to control the issue. Clements’s logic rested on the knowledge that the tobacco interests could lobby for the least intrusive labeling requirements possible by dealing with an elected body, Congress, rather than an appointed one, the FTC."
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/law/federal-law-requires-cigarette-warning-labels
I think this whole AI thing is getting more intense by the day; every day I’m more convinced that we’re heading towards a life like the one shown in the ‘Terminator’ films.